"[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo."
— Mary Pickford

January 1, 1970

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Variant: Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. — Widely attributed in this form (e.g., A. Scott Berg, Goldwyn: A Biography (1989), Ch. 11) and described as having been said in the 1920s, but the 18 March 1934 AP story quotes it as said that day.